Community Tutorials

Google Cloud Platform Community tutorials submitted from the community do not
represent official Google Cloud Platform product documentation.

title: How to Write a Tutorial for the Google Cloud Platform Community
description: Learn how to write a tutorial for the Google Cloud Platform community.
author: jmdobry
tags: Tutorial, Write
date_published: 2017-03-03

Introduction

Beyond the official documentation there are endless possibilities for combining
tools, platforms, languages and products. Ultimately, everything you build is
unique, but very often projects share a lot in common. By submitting a tutorial
you can share your experience and help others who are solving similar problems.

Tutorials can be short or long, but in every case they provide context for
using Google Cloud Platform in the real world and show how to solve a particular
problem that may not have been discussed in the official documentation.

Submitting a tutorial

Community tutorials are stored in Markdown files on GitHub where they
can be reviewed and edited by the community.

Once you've opened a Pull Request a reviewer will be assigned to review your
submission. They'll work with you to ensure your submission meets the
style guide, but it helps if you follow it as you write your
tutorial.

Once your Pull Request is approved and merged your submission will be
published.

Contributor license agreements

We'd love to accept your contributions! Before we can take them, we have to jump
over a few legal hurdles.

Please fill out either the individual or corporate Contributor License Agreement
(CLA).

If you are an individual writing original source code and you're sure you
own the intellectual property, then you'll need to sign an individual CLA.

If you work for a company that wants to allow you to contribute your work,
then you'll need to sign a corporate CLA.

Follow either of the two links above to access the appropriate CLA and
instructions for how to sign and return it. Once we receive it, we'll be able to
accept your pull requests.